California Department of Corrections
Prisoner number 56419
Death by hanging
Crime; Murder in the first, 6 counts
Sentence; Death by Execution
Place of Crime; Lassen county
Occupation; Box Maker
Received at San Quentin; July 27, 1934
Age at Incarceration; 42
Reference for memorial comes from the book San Quentin, established 1852: 150th Anniversary Commemorative. Sections;
Inmates Buried at San Quentin Cemetery
and, Executions at San Quentin Prison.
Cross checked with the
San Quentin State Prison Register
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Man Confesses - Murder of Five
Peter Alosi tells police how and why he stabbed neighbor and his family.
Susanville, California June 12
Quoting the prisoner as declaring he does not care what the authorities do to him, and that his actions resulted from breaking up of his home.
Sheriff James Leavitt said tonight that Peter Alosi, 45, today confessed stabbing five people to death.
The sheriff said Alosi told him and other officers that he had not intended to slay five persons, but only Joe Fazio, whom he characterized as his bitter enemy and the person responsible for the estrangement between himself and his wife and children.
Fazio, a grocer, his wife, and their grown son and daughter and a woman neighbor were found killed and mutilated Sunday night.
Sheriff Leavitt said Alosi stated "I went to the home of Joe Fazio and killed him. I stabbed him and put him in the bathtub where I washed away the blood and was cutting him up when Mrs. Fazio and John (the son) came into the house. I couldn't get away, so I killed them too."
Alosi was quoted as saying he killed the mother first and then the son, leaving them both in the house in a pool of blood. He said he then went to his own home, which was only a few houses away and there he burned the bloodstained clothes he had been wearing.
Next he told officers, he went to the grocery store the Fazio's operated, with the intention of killing Sara Fazio, the daughter, on the way there, however, he met the girl in an automobile with Mrs. Lena Amastani, her neighbor.
The women, he explained, stopped him and asked him if he knew where the other members of the Fazio family were, Sara asked if he knew whether her mother and father were fighting again. "I told them yes." Officers quoted Alosi. "Then I said they were taken to the hospital, and asked them to take me with them, I didn't want to kill Lena only the girl, but, I couldn't help it."
Published Macon Telegraph
Macon, Georgia
Wednesday June 13, 1934
Prisoner number 56419
Death by hanging
Crime; Murder in the first, 6 counts
Sentence; Death by Execution
Place of Crime; Lassen county
Occupation; Box Maker
Received at San Quentin; July 27, 1934
Age at Incarceration; 42
Reference for memorial comes from the book San Quentin, established 1852: 150th Anniversary Commemorative. Sections;
Inmates Buried at San Quentin Cemetery
and, Executions at San Quentin Prison.
Cross checked with the
San Quentin State Prison Register
* * * *
Man Confesses - Murder of Five
Peter Alosi tells police how and why he stabbed neighbor and his family.
Susanville, California June 12
Quoting the prisoner as declaring he does not care what the authorities do to him, and that his actions resulted from breaking up of his home.
Sheriff James Leavitt said tonight that Peter Alosi, 45, today confessed stabbing five people to death.
The sheriff said Alosi told him and other officers that he had not intended to slay five persons, but only Joe Fazio, whom he characterized as his bitter enemy and the person responsible for the estrangement between himself and his wife and children.
Fazio, a grocer, his wife, and their grown son and daughter and a woman neighbor were found killed and mutilated Sunday night.
Sheriff Leavitt said Alosi stated "I went to the home of Joe Fazio and killed him. I stabbed him and put him in the bathtub where I washed away the blood and was cutting him up when Mrs. Fazio and John (the son) came into the house. I couldn't get away, so I killed them too."
Alosi was quoted as saying he killed the mother first and then the son, leaving them both in the house in a pool of blood. He said he then went to his own home, which was only a few houses away and there he burned the bloodstained clothes he had been wearing.
Next he told officers, he went to the grocery store the Fazio's operated, with the intention of killing Sara Fazio, the daughter, on the way there, however, he met the girl in an automobile with Mrs. Lena Amastani, her neighbor.
The women, he explained, stopped him and asked him if he knew where the other members of the Fazio family were, Sara asked if he knew whether her mother and father were fighting again. "I told them yes." Officers quoted Alosi. "Then I said they were taken to the hospital, and asked them to take me with them, I didn't want to kill Lena only the girl, but, I couldn't help it."
Published Macon Telegraph
Macon, Georgia
Wednesday June 13, 1934
California Department of Corrections
Prisoner number 56419
Death by hanging
Crime; Murder in the first, 6 counts
Sentence; Death by Execution
Place of Crime; Lassen county
Occupation; Box Maker
Received at San Quentin; July 27, 1934
Age at Incarceration; 42
Reference for memorial comes from the book San Quentin, established 1852: 150th Anniversary Commemorative. Sections;
Inmates Buried at San Quentin Cemetery
and, Executions at San Quentin Prison.
Cross checked with the
San Quentin State Prison Register
* * * *
Man Confesses - Murder of Five
Peter Alosi tells police how and why he stabbed neighbor and his family.
Susanville, California June 12
Quoting the prisoner as declaring he does not care what the authorities do to him, and that his actions resulted from breaking up of his home.
Sheriff James Leavitt said tonight that Peter Alosi, 45, today confessed stabbing five people to death.
The sheriff said Alosi told him and other officers that he had not intended to slay five persons, but only Joe Fazio, whom he characterized as his bitter enemy and the person responsible for the estrangement between himself and his wife and children.
Fazio, a grocer, his wife, and their grown son and daughter and a woman neighbor were found killed and mutilated Sunday night.
Sheriff Leavitt said Alosi stated "I went to the home of Joe Fazio and killed him. I stabbed him and put him in the bathtub where I washed away the blood and was cutting him up when Mrs. Fazio and John (the son) came into the house. I couldn't get away, so I killed them too."
Alosi was quoted as saying he killed the mother first and then the son, leaving them both in the house in a pool of blood. He said he then went to his own home, which was only a few houses away and there he burned the bloodstained clothes he had been wearing.
Next he told officers, he went to the grocery store the Fazio's operated, with the intention of killing Sara Fazio, the daughter, on the way there, however, he met the girl in an automobile with Mrs. Lena Amastani, her neighbor.
The women, he explained, stopped him and asked him if he knew where the other members of the Fazio family were, Sara asked if he knew whether her mother and father were fighting again. "I told them yes." Officers quoted Alosi. "Then I said they were taken to the hospital, and asked them to take me with them, I didn't want to kill Lena only the girl, but, I couldn't help it."
Published Macon Telegraph
Macon, Georgia
Wednesday June 13, 1934
Prisoner number 56419
Death by hanging
Crime; Murder in the first, 6 counts
Sentence; Death by Execution
Place of Crime; Lassen county
Occupation; Box Maker
Received at San Quentin; July 27, 1934
Age at Incarceration; 42
Reference for memorial comes from the book San Quentin, established 1852: 150th Anniversary Commemorative. Sections;
Inmates Buried at San Quentin Cemetery
and, Executions at San Quentin Prison.
Cross checked with the
San Quentin State Prison Register
* * * *
Man Confesses - Murder of Five
Peter Alosi tells police how and why he stabbed neighbor and his family.
Susanville, California June 12
Quoting the prisoner as declaring he does not care what the authorities do to him, and that his actions resulted from breaking up of his home.
Sheriff James Leavitt said tonight that Peter Alosi, 45, today confessed stabbing five people to death.
The sheriff said Alosi told him and other officers that he had not intended to slay five persons, but only Joe Fazio, whom he characterized as his bitter enemy and the person responsible for the estrangement between himself and his wife and children.
Fazio, a grocer, his wife, and their grown son and daughter and a woman neighbor were found killed and mutilated Sunday night.
Sheriff Leavitt said Alosi stated "I went to the home of Joe Fazio and killed him. I stabbed him and put him in the bathtub where I washed away the blood and was cutting him up when Mrs. Fazio and John (the son) came into the house. I couldn't get away, so I killed them too."
Alosi was quoted as saying he killed the mother first and then the son, leaving them both in the house in a pool of blood. He said he then went to his own home, which was only a few houses away and there he burned the bloodstained clothes he had been wearing.
Next he told officers, he went to the grocery store the Fazio's operated, with the intention of killing Sara Fazio, the daughter, on the way there, however, he met the girl in an automobile with Mrs. Lena Amastani, her neighbor.
The women, he explained, stopped him and asked him if he knew where the other members of the Fazio family were, Sara asked if he knew whether her mother and father were fighting again. "I told them yes." Officers quoted Alosi. "Then I said they were taken to the hospital, and asked them to take me with them, I didn't want to kill Lena only the girl, but, I couldn't help it."
Published Macon Telegraph
Macon, Georgia
Wednesday June 13, 1934
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